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...views the role of trade through rose-colored glasses. For him, the Third World ought to be thankful for the role the West has played in pulling it out of the stone age. He dismisses foreign aid by rich nations as guilt offerings for a crime they did not commit, and characterizes Third World groups generally as parasites organized to such dry their former colonial masters. This and is used Bauer writes, to lengthen the time poor nations can spend in economic fantasyland, unaware of the ruinous consequences of their socialistic policies...
...taste and stupidity are not crimes and these are the only real complaints against Pi Eta--other than that the letter was "inflammatory" and "incited men to commit rape." I haven't yet found anyone who committed or considered committing rape after reading the newsletter, and everyone is either squeaking and beeping with outrage or laughing at those who take it seriously. I do find offensive the charge that men become rapists after reading such drivel--that we cannot think without our testicles getting in the way. If that isn't sexist, let's scrap the term...
Tomas's life is undermined, meanwhile, by an article he wrote on Oedipus. Noting that Oedipus punished himself for a crime he did not commit, Tomas concludes that the political regime of his country, even if it did not intend to commit atrocities, should accept responsibility for what if has wound up doing. This article costs him his job as a surgeon; he descends to being a driver for a collective farm. By this time he is weak enough for Tereza's taste; she is happy with the final condition of her life with...
This view of women is a particular kind of speech--an incitement to commit violence against women. The message could not be much clearer if there were posters all around campus proclaiming that sexual violence against women is "fun," "exciting" and "okay." This is the kind of speech which our Constitution has never protected without qualification (direct incitement to criminal violence). The courts have upheld other limitations of speech where direct harm of this kind (or actually, much less direct harm) has been shown. The question, as Catherine MacKinnon (an associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota...
...next day, July 6, in response to press reports from Jerusalem, Reagan announced that he had agreed to commit U.S. troops to a peace-keeping force in Lebanon. With this ill-conceived announcement, attention was diverted for several vital days from the peace effort and focused instead on the meaning of committing American troops. Superpower rivalry was reawakened. The breach between Syria and the Soviet Union was mended by huge new shipments of Soviet arms to Syria; Syria announced that under present circumstances, it could not accept the P.L.O.; the P.L.O. reneged on its agreement to withdraw from Lebanon...